Artistic Ambivalence in Chaucer's "Knight's Tale."

Author / Editor
Thurston, Paul Thayer.

Title
Artistic Ambivalence in Chaucer's "Knight's Tale."

Published
Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Florida, 1961. Dissertation Abstracts International 29.03 (1968): 882A. Fully accessible via https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00068683 (accessed April 21, 2026).

Physical Description
v, 368 pp.

Description
Argues that for readers sensitive to literary tradition and genre expectations KnT is a "delightful satire" of courtly love and the metrical romance genre, along with the "chivalric code implicit in them."

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale